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Ad Agency Mails PowerPoint About Layoffs To Entire Company...Ouch

by Peter Mychalcewycz on September 4, 2008 at 10:47 AM

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We don't want to presume that the higher-ups at Carat Ad Agency sent a mass PowerPoint file to all of its employees detailing how some of them were going to be fired as some sadistic power-trip...but we will anyway.

Here's what happened...

Powerpoint files detailing how layoffs should be executed and to whom they would affect was circulated throughout the entire company. Whoops. That stinks.

Ad Age got hold of a copy and summarized it like so:

"Management informed its rank and file of forthcoming layoffs and other changes in Microsoft PowerPoint and Word documents full of "message" points on how people should be told of their fate and what should be said to their still-employed colleagues, clients and vendors. According to one person with knowledge of the memo, it was sent to all staffers before the mistake was realized, and it was pulled back by the IT department. The documents, obtained by Advertising Age and posted with this story, detail talking points for managers as they talk to clients, vendors, the press and employees as Carat tries to navigate the fallout from the news."

[From: ValleyWag]

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